Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,257 pages of information and 244,498 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Hinkley Point A Nuclear Power Station

From Graces Guide
1958.
1959. Hinkley Point Caisson.
1959. Hinkley Point Caisson.
1959. 400 Ton Goliath Crane at Hinkley Point.

A site on the Somerset coast, housing two nuclear power stations, Hinkley Point A and Hinkley Point B, located on a 19.4 hectare site on the Somerset coast.

Hinkley Point A was a Magnox power station

1965 Hinkley Point A started generation

There were six main turbine generators, each rated at 93.5 MW. there were also three variable frequency turbine generators rated at approximately 30 MW, which supplied power to drive the reactors' gas circulators. The English Electric Co supplied the turbine generators, gas circulators, and the five Essential Diesel Generators.

2000 The A station stopped generating having completed 35 years of operation, generating a total of 103 TWh.


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